off-topic: phone hangups

[Bob Batson]

At 9:00 PM -0500 5/29/02, I am Spartacus wrote:

>i know this is really off-topic, but i want to see if there are 
>others in the kansas city area experiencing the same problem that i 
>am.  about 6 months ago i started receiving a couple of calls just 
>about every day from what i believe are automated dialers of some 
>sort.  when i picked up the phone and said hello, there was a brief 
>1-second pause (give or take) and then a click and the line goes 
>dead.  annoying, but not horrible.  they only came during the day. 
>lately, like within the last 2 months, i have been receiving about 
>8-12 of these every single day. .........................

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I get them too over here in Missouri (Gladstone). They call between 
4pm and 7 pm. But my calls are completely quite. When I answer the 
phone, the line's dead. I thought they were automated FAX machines, 
but now I don't know. PS - Don't waste your money on Caller ID. It's 
gotten practically useless.

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Bob Batson                            L 39 12 14 N 94 33 16 W
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